Quote Originally Posted by Vuk View Post
While I see your point Sir Beane, I do not completely agree with you. The thing is that enough people know enough about lingustics to appreciate the realism, and they have a real reason to be offended if it is incorrect. (because after all, isn't unrealistic voice acting offensive ) The people who know little about linguistics though have no reason to be offended if they believe it is wrong. And if they think that it is weird and look it up, they will see that it is correct. I think that CA should strive for realism when they can do so. I realise marketing concerns and such, but I hardly see why this would be any more difficult for them or cost them any business.
Finding good voice actors capable of portraying accurate historical accents is more difficult than you might think. Even huge Hollywood movies with gigantic budgets have problems finding historical voice actors. And that means CA would have to pay more, for actors salaries, and for the cost of finding and recruiting capable actors.

I don't really find unrealistic voice acting offensive. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch any American movie or show with a British character, because they always have us Brits sounding like upper class twits. And to be honest no one I know sounds anything like that.

I'm a language student and I can fully appreciate the range of languages and accents that would have to be present to make a game like Empire at all accurate. The fact is though that even scholars of language disagree on how people of the time spoke. The debate only gets worse the more languages you add into it.

I would love it iff the Magyars, English, Americans and every other faction and group of people sounded accurate. It won't happen though., and I do think it is a little unfair to expect CA to do so.